The Cruel Brother

"The Cruel Brother"
Song
Genre	Folk

"The Cruel Brother" (Child 11,^[1] Roud 26) is a folk song.

Synopsis

A knight (or lord) courts a lady. She tells him he must win the consent of her kin. He neglects that of her brother John. John mortally stabs her on her wedding day. She lives long enough to make various bequests, such as clothing to her mother, a fan to her sister; John invariably receives "a gallows to hang him on" and his wife may receive grief for her entire life and his children that they would have to beg, though the wife may get a widow's weeds and a quiet life, or his son the grace of God to be a man.

Motifs

The bride's bequests are highly typical of ballads, and similar bequests are found in ballads throughout Europe.^[2]

Field Recordings

Only four field recordings of the song by traditional singers are known to have been made:

Bell Duncan of Ythenwells, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1929–35, recorded by James Madison Carpenter)^[3]
Polly Johnson of Wise, Virginia, USA (1939, recorded by Herbert Halpert)^[4]
Edith Ballinger Price of New Jersey, USA (1945, recorded by Helen Hartness Flanders)^[5]
Rose McCartin of Annalong, County Down, Northern Ireland (1970, recorded by Hugh Shields)^[6]

References

^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "The Cruel Brother"
^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 143-4, Dover Publications, New York 1965
^ "Cruel Brother, The (VWML Song Index SN16225)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
^ "The Three Maids (Roud Folksong Index S192573)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
^ "Three Ladies Played At Ball (Roud Folksong Index S253940)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
^ "Stock Or Wall (Roud Folksong Index S436256)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 2020-11-20.

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Child's Ballads/11

Brother's Revenge

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